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From: jeff@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Subject: Re: Matrix routines in common lisp?
Message-ID: <DLC3xn.C6L.0.macbeth@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Organization: Centre for Cognitive Science, Edinburgh, UK
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Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 16:46:34 GMT
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In article <4de2l1$s6t@mark.ucdavis.edu> jhgillespie@ucdavis.edu writes:
>Is there a common lisp matrix package out there that is known and
>loved by the lisp community? I found two, but each has problems in my
>hands (which aren't very skilled).  One package,
>
>.../ai-repository/ai/lang/lisp/code/math/matrix/matrix.lsp
>
>uses a "loop for" construct, which is new to me.  I am using GCL and
>notice that a SLOOP package is present, but I can't figure out how to
>get it to work with matrix.lsp.

A solution is (probably) at hand.  SLOOP is not exactly like LOOP,
but the One True Loop Implementation will work in GCL (1.1 at least)
with only minor modifications.

I've put such a modified copy in:

http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~jeff/local-ftp/pub/home/jeff/

(I'll put it somewhere w/ a nicer URL at some point...)

-- jeff
